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Across northern Iraq, in places like the Nineveh Plain and Sinjar, members of the country’s ancient minorities are filtering back to towns and villages devastated during three years of occupation by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. Christians, Yazidis and Shabaks, regarded as “infidels” by the now-vanquished extremists, suffered some of the greatest abuse....
US Deputy Assistant Secretary for Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs at State Department, Alice Wells has rejected the blames that United States of America is supporting the Baloch separatists and adding that US respect the integrity of Pakistan.
A senior US diplomat has said that the United States believes Pakistan can play a much more important role in shaping the Afghan Taliban’s behaviour.
India has played a responsible role in the economic development of Afghanistan, the Trump administration said on Saturday noting that the trilateral India-Afghan-US cooperation is not aimed at Pakistan.
Pakistan’s Foreign Secretary Tehmina Janjua said on Thursday that Islamabad and Washington were engaged at high-level to promote mutual understanding and discuss ways on how the two countries could work together for the common goal of regional stability, including peace in Afghanistan.
n a breathtaking gambit that surprised his closest advisers, President Trump, almost impulsively, accepted an invitation on Thursday to meet the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un—by May—to discuss how to defuse the world’s most dangerous nuclear standoff. The invitation was relayed by a South Korean delegation...
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with journalist Robin Wright about President Trump's decision to accept North Korea's "audacious invitation" and what might happen next.
NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Frank Aum, a former senior adviser on North Korea at the Department of Defense, who is now a senior expert at the U.S. Institute of Peace.
It will be one of the most eagerly watched diplomatic encounters since Richard Nixon was hosted by Mao Zedong in China, or Ronald Reagan held talks with Mikhail Gorbachev in neutral Switzerland.
Korea’s expressed willingness to halt its missile tests to open talks about disarmament with the United States was met with skeptical optimism by President Trump, members of Congress and experts.